Players can choose between Mario, Peach, Toad, and Luigi. The game also features four-player co-op. games where your main goal is reaching the literal goal post flag at the end. While you have the movement options of a 3D Mario game, levels play out like the New Super Mario Bros. Super Mario 3D World is the black sheep of the 3D Mario games, with rather linear levels that call back to the franchise's more simplistic 2D origins. How did gaming get you through the pandemic? We want to hear from you! Take this quick Inverse survey. Together, they just may redeem Nintendo's biggest failures almost a decade later. The Bowser’s Fury add-on, exclusive to the Switch version, is a refreshing and surprisingly robust 3D Mario game that innovates by incorporating power-ups and level gimmicks from Super Mario 3D World. Super Mario 3D World feels familiar but thoughtfully enhanced to make it welcoming to newcomers.
While many Wii U titles like November 2013's Super Mario 3D World never got the appreciation they deserved, the newly released Nintendo Switch port Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Furymakes the best case yet that Wii U games were ahead of their time. The Wii U wasn’t a total bust though, as it had one truly fantastic thing going for it: some incredible games. Since 2017, it has sold nearly 80 million units of the Switch. Nintendo solved such problems with the Switch, a hybrid of a home console and handheld system. Nintendo moved only 13.56 million units in its first five years. It was a limited seller in a mainstream world. It didn’t differentiate itself enough from the Wii, and many saw it as an awkward-in-hands peripheral rather than a brand new video game system. Nintendo's Wii U console was practically a flop from the get-go after launching in 2012.